Passions
By: Giacomo Leopardi ; translated by Tim Parks
Contributors: Parks, Tim, translator
Series: Margellos world republic of letters book; Margellos world republic of letters book
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780300186338
Subjects: Italian literature; Italian language; History and criticism
Work titles: Zibaldone dei pensieri. Il trattato delle passioni
Description: "Revenge-Revenge is so sweet one often wishes to be insulted so as to be able to take revenge, and I don't mean just by an old enemy, but anyone, or even (especially when in a really bad mood) by a friend.-from Passions The extraordinary quality of Giacomo Leopardi's writing and the innovative nature of his thought were never fully recognized in his lifetime. Zibaldone, his 4,500-page intellectual diary-a vast collection of thoughts on philosophy, civilization, literary criticism, linguistics, humankind and its vanities, and other varied topics-remained unpublished until more than a half-century after his death. But shortly before he died, Leopardi began to organize a small, thematic collection of his writings in an attempt to give structure and system to his philosophical musings. Now freshly translated into English by master translator, novelist, and critic Tim Parks, Leopardi's Passions presents 164 entries reflecting the full breadth of human passion. The volume offers a fascinating introduction to Leopardi's arguments and insights, as well as a glimpse of the concerns of thinkers to come, among them Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Wittgenstein, Gadda, and Beckett"--
Notes: Translation from the Italian of: Zibaldone dei pensieri. Il tratto delle passioni.